Newt has already displayed his propensity to whine. I thought he was damaged goods when he originally announced and I've never wavered from that. Frankly, I was surprised he managed to survive despite that big un-assing of staffers last year.

Newt has already displayed his propensity to whine. I thought he was damaged goods when he originally announced and I've never wavered from that. Frankly, I was surprised he managed to survive despite that big un-assing of staffers last year.

I've tended to agree with that, but notice that every time Paul is asked if he'd run third party, he denies it.

"Newt is crazy. That's the clincal explanation and the only one that draws from the entire record."

Not at all. He's merely a rank opportunist and hypocrite, a fraud, as are so so many of his peers.

When he announced he was running in the primary, who was it that said he was a giant joke and there was no reason to take him seriously and that it spoke poorly of the Republican party that he was doing so well?

There is a good chance that Newt will go the third party route. By now he must have burned all his bridges with the GOP. He has at least one wealthy backer. He is a sore loser. The media will encourage him because they love controversy and will secretly want 0bama to be reelected.

A big reason Bush the Elder lost in 1992 was his imperious disregard for the fiscal conservatives who defected to Perot seeking a budget-balancer. Bush went back on his 'no new taxes' pledge without pushing for real spending cuts (remember, we were already on the 'baseline budget' facade of naming reductions in increases as cuts) or even offering up a justification or apology to his own supporters.